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LDAP Group Support for System z HMC

The System z HMC currently does not support LDAP Groups. We are unable to utilize the alternate method using templates as we are unable to update the LDAP schema for our users. We are requesting the capability for defining LDAP Groups on the Syste...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

Add member information to Jobclass panel on SDSF

JC panel on SDSF is lacking the member information (available with D action char). The 82 SSI provide this data at the member level: Active? PXEQ? max, current, ... New columns or JC MEMBERS should show the detailed data in a tabular form.
almost 8 years ago in z/OS / SDSF 2 Delivered

omvs shell ipcs command does not include date, only time

While diagnosing a problem, the shell ipcs command was used. The output for the ipcs command displays time-information, however, it does *not* include date-information. So, there is no way to know if a 24- or 48- hour window has passed between CTI...
over 4 years ago in z/OS / Shell & Utilities 2 Delivered

Remove reliance of the IZUFPROC as the default logon procedure to be used for RESTAPI_FILE statement in IZUPRMxx Parmlib member

Under zOS 3.1, using the zOS Change Tracker plugin for zOSMF and NOT having IZUFPROC as the logon procedure to be used for the RESTAPI_FILE statement in IZUPRMxx Parmlib member, results in an error message as follows - IKJ56712I Abnormal command.....
10 months ago in z/OS / Change Tracker 1 Delivered

More than 2TB memory limit for z/VM

Customer's Oracle DB 19c is growing rapidly as the end-users increase from 14k to 20k. In the coming year, they expect to reach 60k users. More memory is required to eliminate performance and log-in issues. The current z/VM 7.2 LPAR only has 2TB r...
over 2 years ago in z/VM 1 Delivered

realtime HMC/SE logging at a syslog server

We have the requirement to collect all messages, logs,... at a central point like a syslog server (e.g. Splunk).It has to became possile to collect all HMCs and SEs messages (Logs, API-Requests, HW-messages,...) there in realtime. The aim is to re...
over 6 years ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 2 Delivered

zOSMF view or change tenant associations for template

Once you've completed the Add Template and Resource Pool for Tenant panels and specified which resources are associated, there is no obvious way to review or even change these definitions.For example, how can one know if the 'Allow resources to be...
about 3 years ago in z/OS / z/OSMF 2 Delivered

Allow IWQ for appropriate bulk traffic

I am requesting that zOS CommServer and OSA development modify the existing IWQ checks to allow more traffic to be handled by IWQ. We see a lot of duplicate acknowledgements because the TCPIP stack is receiving incoming packets out of order. This ...
almost 5 years ago in z/OS / Communications Server 1 Delivered

Add stepname and step number fields to SMF Type 42.6 records

There are times when data set accesses don't result in Type 14/15 or 64/65 records. The SMF type 30 records for the associated job show CPU and I/O info at the step level, but they don't include the data set name. The 42.6 records show the jobname...
over 5 years ago in z/OS / DFSMS SMS 4 Delivered

RCL service window reduction

In the near past, before we used RCL, the IBM SSR came on site and performed the MCL load in the datacenter. The service window was calculated on around 4hrs for one servers, both the HMCs and SEs were done in the same window. With RCL this is no ...
over 1 year ago in IBM Z and LinuxONE Systems Hardware / HMC/Support Element (SE) 1 Delivered

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